Sale 5573
London, South Kensington
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29 April 2005
Price realised
GBP 780
Estimate
A ceremonial sarong, (croe tapis), the ground of striped brown, red, yellow and blue cotton worked with bands of couched gilt thread embroidery--50 x 42in. (127 x 106.5cm.), Sumatra, circa 1900
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cf Splendid Symbols, the Washington Textile Museum, 1979, plate 47
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